# Floating pt error on NeXT

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:34:40 PST

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    Hank Hughes writes:
    > 	Compiling 1.8b3 on NeXTstep worked fine. However, running
    > 	the executable produces a snag: "Floating point exception"
    > 	I know, I know. "Nextstep, what the?!" But it's a real
    > 	idle machine and would be the only place to practice on.
    >
    > 	Tracing it down using gdb showed, the error comes from
    > 	malloc() in storage.c:

    This is a *very* unlikely place to have generated this signal.  I suspect
    either some truly nasty bug in NeXTstep, some kind of memory smash that's later
    confusing GDB, or a misreading of the GDB output.  I don't know what I can do
    about it if it only crashes on NeXTstep and the debugger is lying to us about
    where it's going wrong...

    	Pavel